Seeking a Friend to Play Some Fuse

Sorry for the lack of updates, but as you would have guessed, I have been incredibly lazy. I just finished watching Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. A touching movie I guess. I find it difficult to watch a movie about relationships when I have not been in one.

The last game I finished was Fuse developed by Insomniac Games. It's incredibly shocking that this came from the same developer that made Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time. The entire game feels like the cooperative mode from Uncharted 3 expanded to a retail game. A developer with so much talent just made one of the most mediocre games towards the end of this console cycle. It's crazy.  Not to mention that they came off shooter-wise with Resistance 3, a great send off to their FPS franchise.  At the same, Insomniac tacked on a multi-player mode that sounded so by the numbers that I couldn't bring myself to play it.  Fuse should have been an extension of the mode they had created in Resistance 2.  That mode was unique and shared that awesome Insomniac charm.  Instead, we are left with a competent shooter with fragments of the Resistance 2 co-op mode.

The story in Fuse does not really go anywhere.  I was shown a flashback of some sort with Naya, the character I had chosen.  Of course, it does not lead anywhere other than the father saying that he hopes she would come home safe when the mission ends.  No internal struggle or emotional bond to make with the father daughter relationship.  Nothing.  It's just a run of the mill save the world scenario.

One of the things that is pulling me along and somewhat justifying my purchase is Echleon mode.  A cooperative mode where you and three others fight hordes of increasingly harder waves of enemies.  It's a fun mode only if everybody knows what they are doing.  I've run into matches where players who control Izzy, the healer of the four, that do not drop a single med beacon which revives players.  The med beacon is crucial to everybody's survival as well as Dalton's drop a shield mechanic during the "protect the Fuse cell" missions.  It's fun seeing a solid group work together but seeing only four unique weapons can get pretty boring after a while.  The reason why Mass Effect 3's multi-player works so well is that there is an enormous cast of characters to choose from as well as a bunch of weapons at my disposal.  Seeing what combinations work is incredibly satisfying so by only having four weapons in comparison seems a bit dry in my eyes.  There are team perks to help alleviate struggling with certain missions but most of the time it comes down to the team working together to take down bullet sponge after bullet sponge.

Overall, it's a decent time until I can get my hands of Remember Me.  Decent is something I wished I didn't have to say about an Insomniac game.

Still here and kicking

Sorry I haven't been around. I have been playing though not much capturing. Still stuck on the footage I have now. I really want to do a different video review than what other sites do. I will have something in the upcoming days. Stay tuned.

Season 2 "Making Sense"

Episode 1 is live.





Suggestions are welcome. It was sort of a rush episode to test out how Vegas worked since it's been a while since I used the program. Show flow will get better the more I use it. Right now, I'm working on text animations and whether or not game title logos look right.

For concurrent episodes, I'm thinking of going by a one game basis/news to cut the time down. I need to keep the episode one part so that it keeps the viewer's attention. Let me know what you think.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody :)

so close

I was this close in snagging one of those new PS3s. They're lighter, slimmer, less power hungry.....I really wanted it. But then I thought about it. My PS3 still works fine and has backwards compatibility to boot. I couldn't give up something that still works fantastically. Sure it doesn't have the new HDMI chip. Sure it's power hungry. It all comes to that it still works. Besides, having $299 for other things doesn't hurt.

I got Metroid Prime Trilogy and Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box to tide me over. This is my ice cream.

Another reason to get the new PS3

It supports bitstreaming of TruHD and DTS-MA audio signals. Sure it doesn't do much for me at this time, but I hate it when a better version of something I have comes out. I was thinking of getting one (like having it in my Amazon cart), but I remembered that I still have one more year with Best Buy with my current PS3. I couldn't let that go to waste.

Snowball Mic

Disappointing. I've read reviews that just gushed out at the seams for the product. I tested it and dang, it does not work as promised. There are three settings and only one works.

*sigh*

Goddamn you Logitech and your shitty PS2 mic. Why did you have to break down?

EDIT: Well, I'm a freaking idiot. It now works fantastically. It just needed to warm up.